Team of Pianists: TAKE FOUR: EIGHT HANDS AT RIPPON LEA!

Take Four: Eight Hands at Rippon Lea! –
The Team’s end-of-year celebration recital

Celebrate the end of 2025 in the elegance of the Rippon Lea ballroom, at this gala multi-piano event! Experience all four Team partners (Robert Chamberlain, Darryl Coote, Rohan Murray & Kevin Suherman) performing in an exciting program of piano music for two, four and eight hands at two Schimmel grand pianos!

Enjoy canapé refreshments (included in ticket price), pre-recital bar drinks on the pool terrace (at cost) and meet committee members of the Friends of the Team of Pianists, in this festive occasion in a special heritage venue.

With generous sponsorship from Friends of the Team of Pianists (FOTOPS), financial members of the Friends may purchase specially discounted tickets, while anyone else purchasing a full-price ticket will automatically receive 6 months’ complimentary membership of the Friends until July 2026.

The recital programme encompasses:

• Rachmaninoff – Fantasy Suite Op. 5 for 2 pianos
• Beethoven (arr. Liszt) – Scherzo from 9th symphony for 2 pianos
• Rossini (arr. Liszt)  – William Tell Overture
• Liszt – Grand Galop Chromatique for 8 hands at 2 pianos
• INTERVAL
• Smetana – Sonata in one movement for 8 hands at 2 pianos
• Gounod – Waltz from Faust for 8 hand at 2 pianos
• Ravel – Bolero for 8 hands at 2 pianos
• Tchaikovsky – Waltz from Sleeping Beauty for 8 hand at 2 pianos

The Team of Pianists gratefully acknowledges the support of Bernies Music Land, Australian agent for Schimmel pianos: Bernies Music Land, 381 Canterbury Road, Ringwood: 3134. Tel. 03 9872 5122, www.musicland.com.au and www.schimmelpianos.com.au.